Peru prosecutors search presidential compound in graft probe on February 12, 2022Lima: Peru’s public ministry said on Friday it had raided the presidential compound and several private homes as part of a corruption investigation into state oil company Petroperu that implicates President Pedro Castillo. The public prosecutor’s office said on Twitter it had carried out “a raid for seizure purposes on the Government Palace and 14 […]
Israel to withdraw diplomats’ families from Ukraine on February 12, 2022Jerusalem: Israel said Friday that it will evacuate the families of its diplomats and other embassy personnel working in Ukraine, due to escalating tensions between Kyiv and Moscow. “The foreign ministry also recommends that Israeli citizens planning to come to Ukraine consider refraining from doing so at this time,” the ministry said. It advised Israeli […]
‘Global Britain’ runs into Russian ridicule on February 12, 2022London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson stands accused of trashing the UK’s diplomatic standing since Brexit, just as his ambition to forge a new “Global Britain” met a frosty reception in the Moscow chill this week. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was the latest Western dignitary to emerge bruised from an encounter with her Russian counterpart, Sergei […]
US warns Russia could invade Ukraine within days on February 12, 2022Washington: The White House warned Friday that a major Russian assault on Ukraine, presaged by aerial bombings and missile attacks, could begin in days and told Americans there to leave within 48 hours in a dramatic elevation of the war threat level. “We continue to see signs of Russian escalation including new forces arriving at […]
Two foreign journalists detained while on UN assignment in Kabul released on February 12, 2022Kabul: Two international journalists who were detained while on an assignment for the UN refugee agency in Kabul have been released, the UNHCR said Friday. The detentions came nearly six months after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan following a lightning offensive that ousted the former Western-backed government. “We are relieved to confirm the release […]
Australia warns koalas ‘endangered’ as numbers plunge on February 11, 2022Sydney: Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as “endangered” on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease. Conservationists said koala populations had crashed in much of eastern Australia over the past two decades, warning that they were now sliding towards extinction. Environment […]
Another journalist killed in Mexico, the fifth this year on February 11, 2022Mexico City: A journalist was shot dead Thursday, a prosecutor said, the fifth such murder in Mexico this year. Heber Lopez Vazquez, who worked for a news website called Noticias Web in the southern Oaxaca state, was shot while he was in his car, state prosecutor Arturo Calvo told the TV channel Milenio.
France’s Nobel winner for co-discovery of HIV virus dies on February 11, 2022Paris: French scientist Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel prize for medicine for his co-discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, has died aged 89, the mayor of the Paris suburb where he was hospitalized said Thursday. Montagnier died on Tuesday in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine northwest of the centre of Paris, its […]
Novavax says Covid vaccine more than 80% effective among teens on February 11, 2022Washington: Novavax said Thursday its Covid vaccine was 82 percent effective among adolescents during the period when the Delta variant was dominant, and the US biotech now plans to submit for regulatory approval in this age group. The two-dose vaccine, which is based on synthetic proteins that mimic the spikes that dot the surface of […]
Musk ‘confident’ of Starship orbital launch this year on February 11, 2022Starbase, United States: Elon Musk delivered updates on SpaceX’s efforts to develop its interplanetary Starship rocket on Thursday night, but stopped short of announcing a firm launch date for an orbital test or new missions, despite considerable buildup ahead of the rare presentation. Addressing an audience at the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica, south […]